Page:Account of the particular soliloquies and covenant engagements, of Mrs. Janet Hamilton, the deceased lady of Alex. Gordon of Earlston (2).pdf/6

 honour. Praise be to thee, whose care of me was such that it was ministers who were valiant for Christ that he sent in my way; such as did not flattterflatter [sic] me in my sin, but faithfully and freely did hold out in the gospel what was sin and what was duty, and sealed the same with their blood. How didst thou encourage me with many sweet answers of prayers, to confirm me in thy love. Thou didst help me in the days of thy love to me, to make a full resignation of all that was mine unto thee. When I was put out of all, striped bare and destitute, not knowing of shelter to me and poor my babes, how calmly and quietly didst thou help me to go under it! so that I was made to fear that it was stupidity, and not supporting grace. And such was thy love, that even in that thou would not let me go without a reproof; for there was a friend suffered to wrong me in a business, and the Lord withdrew, and then I was as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke; I could not get it borne, until I mourned for my folly in thinking that nature could do any thing in me without assisting grace: then he helped me to make a full resignation anew of all that was mine, and to look beyond all earthly portions unto that noble inheritance which thou hast purchased with thine own blood, and gave me a full contentedness in all my sufferings, both from friends and foes,